Sure Andrew, When you deposit money into your bank account at the branch,
what do you do before seeing the teller? You complete a deposit slip. Is
the deposit slip a process? No, the teller does the work. Same with the
online bill payment. The web is a form (document) to gather information
to hand to a program (on the back end) to work with.
-Steve
Andrew Kirkpatrick said:
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>>We are not talking about programs here, we are talking documents. I
>> think this is the crux of the scripting problem. A WEBPAGE IS A
>> DOCUMENT NOT A PROGRAM. If you want networking applications, write a
>> program. If you want to convey information, use the web.
>>
>>
> I have a hard time agreeing with that statement. When I use online
> banking to pay a bill, is that an application or a document? An
> interface to an application?
>
> Can you define document and application?
> AWK
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